---
name: "Design and Audit Agent Harnesses with Agents Best Practices"
slug: "design-and-audit-agent-harnesses-with-agents-best-practices"
description: "Use Agents Best Practices when an agent should produce concrete harness designs, permission models, memory plans, eval gates, or production-readiness audits."
github_stars: 2204
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices"
author: "DenisSergeevitch"
publisher_type: "open-source"
category: "Templates & Workflows"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices"
  github_stars: 2204
---

# Design and Audit Agent Harnesses with Agents Best Practices

Use Agents Best Practices when an agent should produce concrete harness designs, permission models, memory plans, eval gates, or production-readiness audits.

## Prerequisites

A compatible agent skill runtime such as Codex skills, Claude Code skills, or the skills CLI; local access to the installed SKILL.md and references directory.

## Installation

Install or set up from the source-backed instructions:

Install as a portable Agent Skill. With the skills CLI, run npx skills add DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices -g. For Codex, clone the repo into CODEX_HOME/skills/agents-best-practices or $HOME/.codex/skills/agents-best-practices. For Claude Code, clone it into $HOME/.claude/skills/agents-best-practices or a project .claude/skills/agents-best-practices directory.

- Source: https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices

## Documentation

- https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/design-and-audit-agent-harnesses-with-agents-best-practices/)